Media/Policy Watch
This section is intended to alert readers to substantive news, analysis and opinion from the general media on vaccines, immunization, global; public health and related themes. Media Watch is not intended to be exhaustive, but indicative of themes and issues CVEP is actively tracking. This section will grow from an initial base of newspapers, magazines and blog sources, and is segregated from Journal Watch above which scans the peer-reviewed journal ecology.

We acknowledge the Western/Northern bias in this initial selection of titles and invite suggestions for expanded coverage. We are conservative in our outlook in adding news sources which largely report on primary content we are already covering above. Many electronic media sources have tiered, fee-based subscription models for access. We will provide full-text where content is published without restriction, but most publications require registration and some subscription level.
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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Accessed 18 June 2016
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As Zika Threat Grows in U.S., Testing Lags for a Vulnerable Group
By MARC SANTORAJ UNE 17, 2016
As the Zika virus swept north from Brazil into the Caribbean, bringing with it frightening risks for pregnant women and their unborn children, United States health officials decided in February that all expectant women who had visited the countries affected should be tested for the disease.
But after the guidelines were put in place, public health officials and doctors in New York City found that large numbers of women, many uninsured or low-income immigrants from the Caribbean and Latin America, were not being screened and tested in a systematic way.
The problems facing the city’s health care providers in ensuring that all of those who need testing can get it illustrates the monumental challenges involved in reaching those considered most at risk. And as summer approaches, the reach of mosquitoes that carry the virus is expected to extend to Florida and other states along the Gulf of Mexico…

Polio Strain Found in Hyderabad, India, Prompts Vaccination Drive
15 June 2016
NEW DELHI — The health authorities in the southern Indian state of Telangana have issued a high alert in Hyderabad, the state capital, after finding a strain of polio in sewage water there, a state health official said Wednesday.
A polio vaccination drive will begin on Monday, the health authorities said, with the aim of vaccinating about 300,000 children in parts of Hyderabad and in the Rangareddy district also part of the state of Telangana, according to a statement from India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The Hyderabad metropolitan area has more than 7.7 million people and the Rangareddy district 5.2 million, according India’s 2011 census.
“We have to avoid any kind of risk, even though nobody has been affected,” said Rajeshwar Tiwari, the principal secretary for the Ministry of Health in Telangana. “We want to remain a polio-free nation.”…

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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Accessed 18 June 2016
Mosquitoes don’t just spread the Zika virus. They may be helping an older killer reemerge.
As global warming continues, yellow fever may start to spread again.
Mara Pillinger | Politics | Jun 16, 2016